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...........watch below and skip to the 30 seconds between 8.00 and 8.30 of this video.
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Let me preface, all through my childhood I worshiped Tyson and thought he was invincible. Like a lot of kids born in the early 80's, I was a teenager during his post prison comeback and he came in and just re-ignited the aura.
Now, years later, I watch Tyson fans with the same curiosity as I'm sure people watched me. He was far from invincible, and wasn't the phenom I thought he was, but more to the point of this thread, on watching this fight the other day after years (and I stayed up all night in Ireland to watch them on Sky in 1996 and 1997), I realised how utterly terrified he looked against Holyfield, while Holyfield looked like an absolute boss standing there staring him down, and the one thing I thought was unchallengable about him really wasn't in that he wasn't all that intimidating once the mystique was gone.
Quiet and confident is more intimidating than loud and brash, and this staredown exemplifies it more than anything.
[YT]aV2slj8ciAE[/YT]
Let me preface, all through my childhood I worshiped Tyson and thought he was invincible. Like a lot of kids born in the early 80's, I was a teenager during his post prison comeback and he came in and just re-ignited the aura.
Now, years later, I watch Tyson fans with the same curiosity as I'm sure people watched me. He was far from invincible, and wasn't the phenom I thought he was, but more to the point of this thread, on watching this fight the other day after years (and I stayed up all night in Ireland to watch them on Sky in 1996 and 1997), I realised how utterly terrified he looked against Holyfield, while Holyfield looked like an absolute boss standing there staring him down, and the one thing I thought was unchallengable about him really wasn't in that he wasn't all that intimidating once the mystique was gone.
Quiet and confident is more intimidating than loud and brash, and this staredown exemplifies it more than anything.